Read the excerpt from The Diary of Anne Frank. Anne's Voice. You could not do this and you could not do that. They forced Father
out of his business. We had to wear yellow stars. I had to turn in my bike. I couldn't go to a Dutch school any more. I couldn't go to the movies, or ride in an automobile, or even on a streetcar, and a million other things. What is Anne describing in this excerpt? regulations imposed upon people of Jewish descent in Holland in 1942 rules that everyone in Holland had to follow or risk being captured by Nazis regulations imposed upon anyone who disagreed with Hitler in Holland in 1942 rules that the Frank and Van Daan families had to follow while in hiding
It could be said that the central idea of "The Americanization of Irving Berlin" might be that he was open , talented, he felt free and optimistic and he was creative.
